Is it the business of healthcare or the healthcare business? The objective of business is making money, profit, the bottom line. In healthcare the bottom line should be healing, the health of the patient. When a person's healthcare cuts into the profit margin, which is given priority? Is good health bad for business?
What would happen if people were healthy and did not get sick? Where would the healthcare industry be? There cancer research has become big business. There has not been a cure found. If one was found what would happen to all thsoe jobs and businesses that depend on people's cancer to make the books balance. Health should not be about corporate profits.
Even not-for-profit groups who make their living at helping people would go out-of-business if they achieved their mission statement. Seeking solutions is sometimes more profitable than finding them. If you are sick you boost the economy, if you stay healthy you hurt the economy.
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